Katten

Evil no morals cat addict that unfortunately also plays league
I stream walking my cats at my twitch sometimes
We post Cat Mondays @ 3 PM CET every Monday

[Katten @KattenEUW]

a bit late but ITS CAT MONDAY!! pls share all your pets, non-cats are always welcome too

[Katten @KattenEUW]

do you actually have to open the tft client every time just to get rid of these notifs now? I've scrolled through all worlds/aram/ranked/classic tabs and there's just nothing

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@7Soul_Eater7 unfortunately probably won't as long as i am abusing op champs like mel and draven

[Katten @KattenEUW]

team hovers talon+xin+irelia, I firstpick mel and this is the comp we end up with? genuinely what the fuck man

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@CHORTCHOMP and if her whole new kit is based off of hitting cc'd targets and they try to balance her new slow ass easy to dodge spells to make her viable in midlane whats gonna happen when those "expected to miss most of the time" spells hit all the time bcs of nautilus or rell

[Katten @KattenEUW]

They're buffing Mel because she landed in a good spot and they want to see what happens if she is overpowered? I swear they just want everyone to hate her and perma ban her, the issue was people hated her even when she was weak and now they fixed that and they're not satisfied?

[Matt Leung-Harrison @RiotPhroxzon]

Patch 26.23 Preview!

It's the second last patch of the year and we're continuing to adjust champs that have had adverse effects from Pro Play and tap down a few strong champs for regular play that have been on the higher ratings for frustration surveys

Voltaic Cyclosword
- After nerfing Bastionbreaker a few patches ago, we also think Voltaic is slightly too strong currently
- There need to be powerful Assassin first items! And Voltaic competes against things like Umbral, Hubris, Profane Hydra, Youmuus, which we think could see more representation in the environment
- Even then, it's still a little too strong, so we're looking to tap it down a bit

Yi, Syndra, Leblanc
- Yi and Syndra continue to be champions that rate highly on our frustration surveys
- Yi for regular play and Syndra and Leblanc for the higher levels of play
- Syndra got a nerf a few patches ago and it was not super heavy by intention, so as to not go further than we need to, but we think she could use another tap down this patch

Mel
- So far, Mel has landed in a pretty stable spot, with a decently low banrate (touch wood)
- That said, at this power level, we aren't really able to test our hypothesis of whether she is less frustrating when she's at a power level, so we're giving her some buffs to let her sit at a normal power level for a champion of her type of shape and mastery curve
- She shows a bit of a bot skew, similar to many other mages that have been inhabiting bot lane recently
- This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but just something to watch

Buffs
- Of the interesting buffs, many of the historical Pro staples are receiving buffs this patch to round out the year for average play
- These include champs like Azir, Galio, K'Sante, Ezreal, etc.
- Many of these champs feel pretty weak, even in the highest levels of Solo Queue, because they just don't thrive as much in non-coordinated environments (Ezreal a bit less so)

[Katten @KattenEUW]

it's not a secret, it was extremely blatantly obvious that all these rework changes were making her even worse as a solo laner (who already had 47% winrate) and that she would become way stronger as a duo laner, and people can call riot stupid all they want, but they are not so stupid that they could ever accidentally rework all of her spells into being harder to hit but more rewarding and then act surprised that she's stronger laning with a nautilus who holds her target in place rather than laning on her own and missing everything, like you don't have to speculate, or guess or be a genius to figure this out ahead of time

[Katten @KattenEUW]

Yes speculating and framing it as truth, or as normal people would call it, very educated guesses based on experience and game knowledge, ppl said this same thing when I said mel rework will make her a botlaner 2 weeks before the rework went live, if you need a change to go live so you can form a result based opinion bcs u don't have any understanding of your own then what's even the point in interacting with patch notes and other peoples opinions

[Katten @KattenEUW]

whether they are pretending that she wasn't meant to be a botlaner or not doesn't change the fact they intentionally changed her entire kit around her becoming one, they're just trying to make mid mel players stop crying and will probably make her stupidly op in her better/intended (bot) role in the process, unless they revert any of these spell changes that forced her into botlane and undo part of the rework to bring some of her old identity back

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@CHORTCHOMP they made her q incredibly slow and unhittable without chain cc, her w is aoe shield/movespeed for team, her e is thinner and slower than a nidalee spear unhittable without chain cc, how is she supposed to be played solo lane with this kit?

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@7Soul_Eater7 we won the game

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@CHORTCHOMP being rational is understanding that her new kit is based on her becoming a duo laner and that her winrate in botlane is 50-51% across almost all ranks and servers which is a very good place considering people haven't learned how to play the new mel yet

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@CVontas55473 but they've already succeeded in doing that, the rest of her kit is already good now and her new w is great, if they intentionally overbuff the champ until it becomes obnoxiously overpowered everyone will hate her again, with or without her W

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@TepesGod kinda same but mostly with smolders and a little bit jhin but only if they are sitting afk and refusing to play and makes the lane/game a 4v5, i don't think i've ever complained about a champ while they are playing really well and stomping

[Katten @KattenEUW]

it gets even funnier bcs i checked her match history to see if she always runs down every jhin or if she just had a bad day and chose to grief me and she actually does this every time, runs down with jhin on team even if they 1v9, and gets mega stomped by jhin if hes on enemy

[Katten @KattenEUW]

it's a great day to get target inted because i first picked jhin and my jungler doesn't like jhins so he refuses to play for win and just spam ganks ksante vs malphite on repeat while spamming ff

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@RedLionQc @Inspire_LoL1 and this is me first timing mel, i had 0 games on her since her release (except testing her spells in practice tool), I'd imagine she's way stronger if someone whos played the champ before were to pick it

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@RedLionQc @Inspire_LoL1 i assume u haven't played her yet, but i have and she is definitely nuking everyone and everything way before the 28 min mark, unless master 300-1k lp is considered low elo then u might be right

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@majkeferxz yes.. except that almost all the jhins on her team seems to be over performing as well and she is single handedly making them lose

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@majkeferxz idk some people just have mental block against certain champs and delude themselves into thinking it cannot win games, apparently despite perma losing to it and despite it being fed on their team all the time

[Katten @KattenEUW]

yes but they reworked her Q to be incredibly slow and basically un-hittable unless through chain cc, and her E has slower travel speed and smaller hitbox than a nidalee spear, and her W is aoe shield/movespeed, her entire kit was reworked into being a duo laner (specifically with a engage/cc support), she's not supposed to perform well in mid or else she would be 60% winrate in bot

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@snowbirdtbh u have an appointment in 3 hours

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@Krt0s750 it got nerfed on range champs and buffed for melee, its probably still ok but not as good as it was

[Katten @KattenEUW]

it's a great day to get target inted because i first picked jhin and my jungler doesn't like jhins so he refuses to play for win and just spam ganks ksante vs malphite on repeat while spamming ff

[Katten @KattenEUW]

@Krt0s750 its just cheap ad, lethality and haste to snowball, any other lethality item first into crit items after would have same effect